Chris Aran

Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to bury their deceased matriarch.

Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and the desire to explore.

A Palestinian girl is smuggled into Jerusalem to become a suicide bomber, but first she has to convince her handler that although she is a woman she is ready to go all the way!